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Las Vegas Kitchen Essentials

A Las Vegas kitchen is stacked with tools that are a mix of hi-tech and some basic tools. Here is a guide for reference to give you a glimpse of a few Las Vegas kitchen essentials. The list of essential Las vegas kitchen tools is as follows:

Tongs

This is one of the most useful kitchen tools. It can very well be called the third hand in the kitchen since it can be used for a variety of tasks like turning meat on barbecue, to loosen boiling spaghetti, turn the meat pieces in the stew, to fish out nuggets from oil after frying, or to simply toss a salad.

Food Processor

One cannot survive in a Las Vegas kitchen without this gadget. If you love to cook elaborate meals, your savior is a food processor. This is a gadget that can help you with tasks like chopping, whipping, slicing, grinding and mixing food by just a push of a button. If a good food processor is not affordable, you could buy the handy three-cup choppers instead that can also serve the purpose to an extent. For those who like to keep it simple and do not require a gadget for any elaborate processes, you could buy a hand held mixer that greatly reduces the effort to be put in cooking. It is used for mixing, folding, beating and whipping food ingredients.

Mixing bowls

It is essential to have a set of mixing bowls in a Las Vegas kitchen for all the mixing and mincing tasks. The basic requirement is a set of bowls that are durable, heat resistant and lightweight for all the cooking and baking activities. These have rubber rings attached to the base that can help in placing them easily on the kitchen countertop. Stainless steel versions of the mixing bowls are readily available in the market, so you have a number of options to choose from.

Garlic press/ slicer

A decent garlic press/slicer is essential in a Vegas kitchen. Garlic is an essential ingredient used in a lot of dishes. A cast aluminum press can be used to mash large or small cloves. You could also prefer to use a nonporous mortar and pestle to mash the garlic.

Wooden spoon

One needs to make sure that all pots in the kitchen are stirred the right way and without causing any accidents. Wooden spoons can be used for this purpose.These do not conduct heat while stirring sauces and soups. For stirring large pots you could use longer spoons of nearly 14 inches length. These work nicely on non-stick pans and prevent scratching or scraping the surface of the pans and pots in your kitchen.

Knife set

For all the tasks ranging from slicing vegetables to quartering a chicken, a Chef’s knife is required. To suit the budget and suffice the need one needs to buy a set of forged knives i.e. the steel of the blade is embedded till the bottom of the handle, to the slicing and dicing of meat and vegetables. Even though the presence of a food processor reduces the need of a knife, but a good kitchen knife does come in handy many a times.

Digital scale

A scale is used for weighing and measuring food quantities. Precision in measurement can be of utmost importance in some case like baking a cake; hence one requires a scale in a Las Vegas kitchen. A digital scale can be used to calculate both metric and standard weights of any kind of ingredient. These can measure up to 11 pounds which is more than enough for a cook.

Grater

One can make use of a Microplane grater for accomplishing tasks like grating hard cheese like pepperoni and for grating citrus Rhine. It is mainly used for zesting fruits, fresh ginger and to grate chocolate to garnish desserts. This is one tool that one ought to keep in the kitchen drawer and a good grater would cost nearly $12.95.